Letters to the Editor
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Another Scandal, Another "Oh Well"
I used to get a little giddy when GW fucked up. A guilty pleasure, feeling giddiness in fuck-ups that cost trillions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of lives, but damn me straight to Hell, I couldn't help it. When the desert sand yielded no WMD, I thought, "Oh man... the shit's gonna hit the fan now!", but no one gave a fat rat's ass, did they? A complacent media gave a pass, rationalizing that the war was still worth it, since an evil madman was removed from power, even if the evil madman was simply an old crazy bastard they found in a hole. It's cool... fifty million people are free now. Free to starve to death, free to sweat their asses off in the dark of night when the fans cut out again due to a lack of electrical power, free to have their testicles jump started by an American made Sears Die Hard, free to be shot to shit because they failed to stop at a check point. Let freedom reign.
When it was revealed that Emperor Numbnuts was briefed that Bin Laden was 'determined to strike within the United States' using jetliners as guided missiles, I thought maybe the voters would realize they had placed their security in the hands of someone who was emotionally and perhaps mentally retarded, and they would snap the fuck out of the stupor that has gripped the electorate since late 2001, but once again, the media gave him a pass. After all, he was saving us from the terrorists he gathered in Baghdad and Basra, and besides, if that homo Kerry were elected, gay ragheads would take over the country and force the white flower of American womanhood to abort their Christian fetuses.
I could go on (and on)... the biggest surplus in history squandered on a tax cut almost nobody wanted... Abu Ghraib photos... Katrina... in every instance of this douchebag's monumental fuckups, we get media coverage for a few days, a few Democrats on the Hill wring their hands, and then the whole thing blows over. So, I don't get giddy anymore. I simply get sick to my stomach over the fact that this country and all of Western civilization may be irreparably fucked to smithereens, and nobody seems to give a shit. It's not just his minions that feed his ignorance; it's a bought and paid for media, it's Dems who are so scared of appearing liberal, they even make sure their nut sacks hang to the right before they get kicked in the groin again, and it's an electorate who just doesn't know or doesn't give a shit what power the Constitution gives (or gave) them. Just send them a $300 tax rebate check every few years, and make sure the TIVO is set for American Idol.
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I'm a free man, lickspittle
And there's nothing you can do about it.
I love that word. Thanks for using it. It's worth watching Dr. Zhivago just to hear Klaus Kinski pronounce it.
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Bush receives warm, er fiery welcome in India
After looking at this slideshow, you will understand why we outsource to India. Why they even do a better job at dissent!
Judge for yourself:
http://news.yahoo.com/photos/sm/events/ts/030106indiabush/p:149
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Fear of Pwnage
"I thought maybe the voters would realize they had placed their security in the hands of someone who was emotionally and perhaps mentally retarded..." -- Ben Henderson
"(The stubbornly unwavering Bush supporter) seeks no contrary information or independent sources...The more is (s/)he flattered, the more (s/)he approves of the flatterer...when disturbing information manages to penetrate the carefully constructed net surrounding (the supporter), (s/)he instinctively rejects and condemns it." -- Sidney Blumenthal
The reason a percentage of Bush supporters keep their eyes forcibly shut is that, like Bush, their entire sense of self relies upon continuing to believe that they are, were, and will always be, right. It's just that for the supporters, what they refuse to admit, in their terror of wrongness, of having made a mistake, of having been played and fooled, is that they have always been wrong about Bush. Moreso than almost any other emotional refrain, the one heard from those "staying the course" with regard to Bush is that they simply cannot let those damn liberals "win." Do you see? It's not about Bush's policies; that's why they support anything this administration chooses to do, no matter how their words contradict their actions. That's why it never mattered that there were no weapons of mass destruction; that's why the very people that you would think would be OUTRAGED at having the justification for invading Iraq flip-flopped repeatedly until finally the only justification left that the Bush administration could pull out of its pocket, "We did it to help the Iraqis" accepted that justification gratefully, as if it had obviously ALWAYS been the reason, and that became a repeated refrain throughout the Dittoverse. They don't recoil from the mistakes, the rewriting of history, the lame excuses, because they reflect that behavior exactly, themselves.
I have never understood why the Democrats who voted to give Bush the authority to invade Iraq if he so chose didn't simply offer the Bush supporters an alternate narrative by saying, "We voted to give Bush that authority because *like you, we trusted the President*. We may not have voted for him, but it never occurred to us that the President would not have the country's best interests at heart, and it never occurred to us that this administration would fabricate evidence, any more than it occurred to you. WE ARE LIKE YOU. We were bamboozled." All that is needed is a leader with the strength of character to say, "I was fooled, *I* made a mistake trusting Bush," to offer the masses a way out of all this. So many of them feel they have no way out, and they're terrified of being wrong, because the genius of all this is that they've been made to perceive *other Americans*, those who do not, for whatever reason, support Bush, as their true enemy. And because we're so insulated from the rest of the world by our privilege, it's easy to allow nothing to matter so much to us as PWNING our neighbors and avoiding being PWNED by them.
Which explains why the repeated "The liberals/Democrats LOVE it when our soldiers die!" and all its nasty relatives resonates with them, while it baffles liberals and Democrats, since it's such an extreme and unlikely attitude for anyone to have toward anything. Wanting soldiers to die so they can avoid being proven wrong? How does that make sense? It makes perfect sense to the accusers themselves; they believe it easily because it's a feeling with which they can identify. They have backed themselves into a corner from which the only possible exit is an admission of having made a mistake, and the thought so terrifies them that they know that *they* would rather see soldiers die than admit their mistake. It's easy for them to transfer that motivation to others.